Charles K. Kao Scientist

The Honourable Sir Charles Kuen Kao, GBM, KBE, FRS, FREng (born 4 November 1933) is a Chinese-born Hong Kong, American and British electrical engineer and physicist who pioneered in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications. Kao, known as the "Godfather of Broadband", "Father of Fiber Optics" or "Father of Fiber Optic Communications", was jointly awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication". Kao holds multiple citizenship of Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Personal facts

Birth date	November 04, 1933
Birth place	Shanghai , Republic of China (1912–49)
Education	University of Greenwich University College London University of London
Known for	Optical fiber Fiber-optic communication

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Scientist

awards	Japan Prize Marconi Prize Faraday Medal James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials Stuart Ballantine Medal Nobel Prize in Physics Asian of the Century Charles Stark Draper Prize Order of the British Empire Grand Bauhinia Medal IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award 3463 Kaokuen C&C Prize Prince Philip Medal SPIE Gold Medal
doctoral advisor	Harold Barlow
Field of study	Physics